The carburettor is connected to the cylinder of the engine by another pipe, and there is valve which is opened by the engine itself and is closed by a spring.
The illustration shows the arrangement of the vertical valves at the top of the cylinder and the overhead cam shaft, while the position of the carburettor and inlet pipes can be also seen.
In the space above the crankshaft, between the cylinder rows, was placed the valve-operating mechanism, together with the carburettor and ignition system, thus rendering this a very compact and accessible engine.
The inlet valves at both ends of the engine were connected by a single feed-pipe to which the carburettor was attached, the induction piping being arranged above the engine in an easily accessible position.
A single carburettor fed all three cylinders, the branch pipe from the carburettor to the circular ring being provided with an exhaust heater.
Bleriot, turning out in the morning, made a landing in some such fashion as flooded the carburettor and caused it to catch fire.
Pipes are carried from the crank case to the inlet valve casings to convey the mixture to the cylinders, a carburettor of the central needle type being used.
The rotary blower sucked the mixture from the carburettor and delivered it to a passage communicating with the inlet ports in the cylinder walls.
Daimler fitted a very simple type of carburettor to this engine, consisting only of a float with a single jet placed in the air passage.
The cause may be faulty ignition, because of a disconnected wire or a loose terminal, exhaustion of the gasoline, or derangement of the magneto, or poor carburettor adjustment.
Water or dirt in thecarburettor plays the mischief.
As the gasoline is sprayed into the carburettor a quantity of air is drawn in from the outside.
If when the ignition system is in good order, the carburettor properly adjusted and the compression cocks closed, there is a lack of power, it may be due to carbon or some foreign substance on the seats of the exhaust or inlet valves.
It was an hour's task to dry thecarburettor and the magneto and get the engine running.
I look down in the fading light and find the precious fluid spurting out from the carburettor union.
A bullet through the petrol-pipe having put the carburettor out of action, the engine ceased its revs.
He tried an alteration in the carburettor mixture, but this did not remedy matters.
He went to the engine-room forthwith, and for the next two hours closely inspected the gasometer and carburettor which supplied his engines.
Now air is forced through my paraffin carburettor and the vapour resulting is fed to that gasometer in the bows of the boat.
You couldn't expect fuel to reach the carburettor when she was standing on her head.
To discover a carburettor which would vaporize this crude oil was difficult.
The lower part of the carburettor was damaged, and the petrol leaked through the fracture with each throb of the engine.
After spending three days with dear friends in Bremen the new carburettor arrived in Hamburg.
Our carburettor continually got cold, and we stopped a good deal.
Then she tiptoed across to the mantelpiece, and proceeded to ornament the Meldrum Carburettor with a floral device.
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